FBI: Hoover's Political Spying for Presidents

The vast fortress-like building on Pennsylvania
Avenue has been criticized as an architectural disaster and a shocking
waste of public funds ($126 million). Now the name, cast in bronze,
begins to be something of an embarrassment in a democratic capital: the
J. Edgar Hoover Building.

The Senate select committee on intelligence activities last week filled
out the dismaying record of Hoover's eagerness to curry favor with
Presidents by using agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to
gather political information. The committee staffs report shows that
Hoover willingly complied with improper requests...